Unaltered letter to John Edwards - second letter

January 17, 2007

Mr. Edwards,

I want to thank you for the 3 emails you have sent to me to date. Each of these emails has been received based on the letter that I sent to you on January 5, 2007. While I appreciate that the receipt of these emails, each containing information on statements you are making to the media in support of your run for President, which confirms that you have in fact received my original letter. Of the 3 candidates that I have written to as of this date, you (or more accurately your organization) are the first to present any response.

Sadly these responses are far from an answer to the original letter I sent, or any of the questions I have asked of you. I have not posted your mass email blasts, as I am not seeking to promote any political figure or candidate for the Presidency at this time. While it is interesting to read the canned commentary that you send out, seemingly to anyone who has contacted you for any reason, it is of little interest to me if you cannot respond to the original cause of your acquiring my email address.

I do not believe that this is due to a lack of concern, or lack of attention to detail. I will give you the benefit of doubt that you have not had the time to respond in detail to the direct questions that I have asked. I prefer to think that you are not unconcerned with the voice of this one voter, or the thousands of readers that have also seen my letter. Perhaps you have not received my previous letter directly due to a staffer failing to recognize that at least one of my sites (www.blackentertainmentblog.com) is ranked considerably well [Technorati has the abovementioned site raked at roughly 250,000 out of well over 4 - 10 million blogs depending on conservative estimates].

Given these reasons I am not upset that I am now getting mail that amounts to little more than spam. I say spam as I did not contact you or your organization for updates on your PR releases. I did not request any updates or other information beyond the answers to my questions. Perhaps if you had provided a response to my questions I may have considered discussing your email blasts on my blogs. Until you do I definitely will not. I also feel it only fair that I will, from this point forward, forward my original letter to you each time that you send an unsolicited email blast to me until you respond to my questions.

In addition, as my political blog may be too small for your attention, I will post my letter to you, and every candidate for President I send a letter to, on my largest blog if not all of them. If there is a critical mass that is necessary before you or any Presidential hopeful will respond, I should easily reach this number as I estimate my total readers to be about 16,000 per month and growing. I should also note that while I have a diverse group of readers worldwide, my target audiences are predominantly African Americans and Latino/Hispanic Americans. I’m sure you are familiar with the demographics of the nation and how valuable both groups are to any political hopeful.

I will be posting this letter at the abovementioned blog among my others. I will also publish each response from any Presidential hopeful, unaltered. I look forward to your response to my original letter. For your ease, I have included a copy of my original letter with this one.

Sincerely

Michael Vass
President – M V Consulting, Inc.
Author – Black Entertainment USA and Vass
info@blackentertainmentblog.com